2024 Energy Challenge🚀
This Week in Review☕: The quickest 6 minute Energy Booster | The Biggest Events of 2023 | Dry January is trending | The Richest Person in the world | Beer consumption at its lowest | Global Population
Happy 2024 everyone!🥂
Cheers to another year of pretending that 'New Year, New Me' isn't just an annual subscription to an impossible gym routine and a diet that lasts until you see the first cookie 🍪 🍪
Meanwhile, we plan on upgrading your inbox from boring to fabulous this year. Buckle up for puns, memes, and the occasional dad joke 👌
More importantly- THANKS a bajillion for being here! 🫶🏻 You guys are the real MVPS and we are so, SO grateful! 🙌🏻 🙌🏻
Quick Bites:
Recap 🌎 : Today is one of our favorite work days of the year, Google Year in Search day!
What were the memorable events people looked for in 2023? What were the defining moments we will remember? Let’s take a look at the big names and stories that led the way:
From Iced coffee, Taylor Swift mania to Plum Pudding recipes and more, check out the lists!
News:
💡Israel Hamas
💡Titanic Submarine that imploded in June
💡Turkey earthquake 💡Hurricane Idalia
People:
💡Damar Hamlin ( From the NFL's Buffalo Bills, Hamlin experienced a near-death cardiac arrest on the field during a game) 💡Jeremy Runner (actor who survived a serious snowplow accident)
💡Andrew Tate
💡Travis Kelce (Guess it pays to date Taylor Swift huh?)
Movies:
💡Barbie
💡Oppenheimer
💡Jawan
💡Sound of Freedom
💡John Wick: Chapter 4
TV Shows:
💡The Last of Us
💡Wednesday
💡Ginny & Georgia
💡One Piece
💡Kaledioscope
Our Thoughts💡: And now what you all have been waiting for..
Our personal predictions for 2024:
💡2024 to surpass 2023 as the hottest year on record
💡China to invade Taiwan
💡Burger King officially becomes cool again
💡X' goes back to being called Twitter
💡The Weeknd gets cancelled
💡Our mental illness becomes a SUPER mental illness
💡A 3-day work week
💡Billie Eilish goes public with a girlfriend
💡Zendaya and Tom Holland get engaged
💡Trump crushes Biden in November
💡Biden breaks a hip
💡Rihanna launches Fenty Hair
💡Robots
💡MCDONALDS GETS A MICHELIN STAR
Alcohol🥂: Dry January is trending as January health resolutions top people's lists once again!
Personally, Dry January means nothing to us. We don’t need booze to make bad decisions. We’ve made some of our worst life choices on Tazo Green Tea🙄
The month-long challenge involves people to cut out alcohol from January 1-January 31 and embrace a sober start to the year.
Umm we dk why people find it hard. So far, we've had a bottle of dry white wine, a pint of dry cider and a dry martini
IMPROVISE, ADAPT, OVERCOME 💯
Pubs and bar owners are adjusting their menu as demand spikes for mocktails, nonalcoholic versions of popular cocktails, and non-alcoholic beers and wines.
PS. A 100% valid reason for breaking Dry Jan. There are fewer calories in a glass of prosecco than there are in a banana 🍌
Our Thoughts💡: Dry January? What’s next? “Fun is illegal” February? 🤔🤔
Speaking of alcohol.. 🍺: People are drinking less beer.
As Americans rang in the new year, it most likely wasn’t with beer. 2023 marked the lowest level of beer consumption in the US in a generation, NBC news reports.
Really..? All of our high school friends rang in the new year with their babies and hubbies today. Meanwhile, we just ripped a Budweiser, got bamboozled and texted everyone on our contact list
Pushing thru a nuclear hangover and pretending you’re fine so bae can’t torment you in the future for having 20 beers is one of the most underrated skills a person can have.
It’s pure gut instinct, you can’t learn it. Either you got it or you don’t 🤷🏻♀️
One contributing factor for less beer consumption is people leaning towards a healthier lifestyle. This means fitness, better nutrition and (you guessed it) not getting turnt on a Tuesday.
Another factor is the variety of drinks available today. You’re no longer limited to beer, wine, or liquor. There are now markets for cider, kombucha, flavored seltzers and premixed cocktails.
Moreover, a fall survey found that Generation Z drank less than any other adult age group, and when they did, they chose spirits, not beer, NBC News reports.
Hmm we guess, the younger generation wanna meet the old-fashioned way.. through watching a bunch of garbage on TikTok and poor judgement
Our Thoughts💡: When you realize it's only Tuesday and you've already hit your weekly six-pack limit..
PS. Us after chasing tequila with beer👇🏻
Money 💰: Elon Musk is the richest person in the world.. again.
Worth an estimated $232 billion, Elon Musk topped the list, thanks to a record-setting performance in tech stocks, according to Bloomberg.
Meanwhile our broker to us after making $1.35 on 750 trades this year👇🏻
We been making coffee at home instead of buying Starbucks the past 3 months which according to economists should’ve made me a billionaire by now so wtf is happening 🤯🤯🤯
The net worth of the Tesla CEO gained more than $95 billion as of Thursday, overtaking French luxury tycoon Bernard Arnault.
Guess the French aren’t known for their subtlety afterall.. Camembert, Roquefort, and Bernard Arnault 🇫🇷
Overall, the year's top 500 earners' wealth jumped $1.5 trillion, reversing a loss of $1.4 trillion in 2022.
Despite being ridiculed for his judgement this year, the habitually controversial Musk came to realize that being provocative on Twitter wasn’t enough, so he just had to buy it.
Elon owning Twitter or ‘X’ is like the substitute teacher who just showed up to class and now we do whatever we want
Personally, we expect any Elon-bought company to run the same except that it’ll now receive ginormous government subsidies and just occasionally burst into flames 🔥
In addition, L'Oreal heir Francoise Bettencourt became the first woman to reach a $100 billion fortune, per the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.
Indian billionaire Gautam Adani's wealth fell by $37.3 billion after a scathing report from short-seller Hindenburg Research
Our Thoughts💡:
2024 POV💡: We’re not broke. We’re pre-rich. It's a strategic financial planning phase.. you know, building suspense before the big wealth explosion
Culture 🌆: Global Population tops 8 billion.
Just incase your boyfriend feels irreplaceable ladies..
We have entered 2024 with 75 million more people than a year ago, the US Census Bureau.
This puts the annual rate of growth at just below 1%- roughly twice that of the US, which added 1.7 million people and saw its population grow by 0.53% over the past year.
While pinning down precise dates is challenging, the threshold was likely crossed in recent months, according to the Census Bureau.
Reminds us of the Kingsman movie (2014). A psychotic billionaire wants to control and reduce the population in the name of climate change by putting chips inside people. Umm tbh we thought it was hilarious.. until now.
Hollywood hinting at us since a decade with movies designed to soften us up for what's to come.. Buckle up folks 🙏🏻
If the current US rate holds steady, the 2020s could be the slowest decade for population growth in history, a Brookings Institution demographer told The Associated Press.
The US population is expected to have surpassed 335.8 million since yesterday.
Quicker Bites:
A 7.5-magnitude earthquake hit Japan yesterday, triggering Tsunami warnings.
The ‘Generation Alpha’ era begins with those born between 2010 and 2021; the group is likely to become the "largest in history".
Queen Margarethe II of Denmark to step down.
Two-time Olympic cyclist ‘Melissa Hoskins’ dies at age 32 after being hit by a car.
McKinsey & Co. to pay $78 million to third-parties in opioid settlement.
Half of Gazans are at risk of starving, UN warns.
Putin vows to keep up bombardment after a Russian city is hit.